Lesson 17

17. How to Edit Metadata in Audacity

Resource Type:

Tutorial Video

Duration:

3 minutes

Outcomes:

Learners are expected to:

SO 2.11.          edit an audio file's meta data

Suggested Evaluation:

Learners can be evaluated through the completion of the following activities:

Halloween Soundscape

Interview a Superhero

Radio Play

Procedure:

Meta data is information about an audio file. Meta data can contain information, such as the song name, artist name, year or the recording and genre. This information is included as part of the file itself and is displayed by portable MP3 players and music software, such as iTunes and Songbird.

Editing the Metadata of a sound file is quite simple in Audacity:

- Open an audio file in Audacity

- Go to Audacity's FILE menu and choose EXPORT

- Give your file a name and choose the format you would like (for this tutorial we are using WAV and MP3 formats)

- Click SAVE and you will be taken to the EDIT METADATA window

- In each cell enter information about the audio

- When you are done click OK

If you need to edit the Metadata for several files you may want to create a Metadata template. This can be done by entering the template metadata then under TEMPLATE click SAVE. You can find and use this new template for new audio files by choosing LOAD under TEMPLATE in the EDIT METADATA window.